Who’s on First?

16 Jan 2015: Our traditional annual review of the top dirty spot charterers shows the usual names at the top of the lists. Unipec remains number one in the overall ranking of reported dirty spot charterers for 2014. With 815 reported fixtures, they represented 7.8% of the total dirty spot market activity, again edging oil major Shell, which retained 2nd place with 758 fixtures. Oil trader Vitol moved up one spot and replaced BP in the top 3. One new entrant in the top 20 was Italian oil company ENI, which moved up to no. 15, while U.S. refiner Valero dropped out of the top 20 in 2014. Download Here